The move itself won't make a huge impact for either Flash or Chrome, considering Adobe's own stats say that around 99% of Internet-enabled desktops already have the plugin installed. However, including Adobe Flash in Chrome also means that it would be part of Google Chrome OS, which could be a strong motivation behind this move.

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